Since we get Amazing Spider-Man (thanks to the fourteen-year-old) anyway, we are presumably getting the Obama issue.
No, I wouldn't make a point of trying to get it otherwise. I'm glad he won, but I'd rather see him doing real-life good things than comic-book good things.
The ten-year-old will be excited, though. She's looking forward to inauguration day, has been ever since election night when she and her best friend marked down the electoral votes as they came in on our "big board," doing little happy dances whenever Obama won a state.
I always have kind of mixed feelings when a comic book gets a lot of media coverage.
On the one hand, I figure that some new actual fans will come out of it--people who go into the comic shop looking for the big deal title but who come out of it having found something else that interests them.
And, I suppose, it doesn't hurt for the public as a whole to be reminded that comic books are still around. :)
On the other hand, for the most part, that really doesn't happen. Most folks will go in and get that one comic and leave, and never be seen again. I don't know what the statistics are on that, but I'm guessing that not a lot of people are hooked by comics by means of these things.
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